Winter Dyke or winterdyke or winter-dyke
is a
Scots word for a
clothes horse
The term 'clothes horse' is used to refer to a portable frame upon which wet laundry is hung to dry by evaporation. The frame is usually made of wood, metal or plastic. It is a cheap low-tech piece of laundry equipment, as opposed to a clothes d ...
used in drying clothing indoors. The word "dyke" means
a wall or a fence made without mortar that was occasionally used for hanging laundry in the summer months.
The phrase winter dyke originally hails from the
Ferguslie Park
Ferguslie Park is a residential suburb at the north-west extremity of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is bordered by the town of Linwood to the west and Glasgow Airport to the north. Ferguslie Park has history of being among the most ...
area of Scotland as a replacement for a back door drying area in the winter months.
See also
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Bleaching field
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Tenterground
A tenterground, tenter ground or teneter-field was an area used for drying newly manufactured cloth after fulling. The wet cloth was hooked onto frames called "tenters" and stretched taut using "tenter hooks", so that the cloth would dry flat ...
References
Scottish words and phrases
Laundry drying equipment
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